Mike Rungie

…at the intersection of good lives and aged care

Throughout his working life in disability and aged care, Mike Rungie has used approaches to stay close to the people using services. Developing an understanding of whether the services enable people to thrive in the way other citizens do. These repeated insights have led to a very different view of success in aged care. What causes mass service failure and how to sort out useful responses from optimistic ones, or just plain bad ones.

His move out of full-time work has enabled him to shift his focus from aged care to longevity. And to move from service provision to more experimental activity: start-ups, grass roots advocacy, co-design innovations, diverse partnerships, longevity ecosystems and life transitions.

Otherwise, he is discovering and enjoying many of those new roles that are the gift of living longer.

CURRENT

  • COTA policy Council. Member, 2016- current.

  • COTA Climate Change sub-committee. Member, 2023-current.

  • Every AGE Counts. Founding coordinating committee member and Director, 2017-current.

  • Pure Land Home Hospice. Founding Director, 2022- current.

  • GAP Productive Ageing Standing Committee. Member, 2018-current.

  • Numerous small community groups established around longevity issues. Ongoing Member.

2025

  • Felixstowe Multigenerational Housing Community advisory group. Member, 2024-2025.

2024

  • Global Centre for Modern Ageing. Founding Director, 2018-2024.

2023

  • Modern Elder Academy. Student, 2017 and 2023. Founding member MEA Australia/Pacific, 2019-2023.

  • Good Death Network. Member, 2022-2023.

  • GAP longevity thinking tools sub-group. Member, 2023.

2022

  • Aged Care Financing Authority. Member, 2016- 2022.

2020

  • Meaningful Ageing Australia. Quality Panel Member, 2020.

2018

  • Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Submission and presentation, 2018.

  • Economic Development Board, South Australia. Director, 2016-2018.

  • Ageing 2.0 Adelaide. Founding Member, 2017-2018.

  • Australian Aged Care Quality Agency. Best Practice Awards Panel Member, 2017-2018.

Pre 2018

  • ACH Group. Operations Manager, 1980-1996. CEO, 1996-2016.

  • Aged Care Innovation Hub. Founding Chair, 2014-2016.

  • The Executive Connection. Member, 1997-2016.

  • Aged and Community Services, SA & NT. Director, 1983-1988, 2002-2014.

  • Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency. Director, 2007-2013.

  • Central Northern Adelaide Health Services Board. Director, 2004-2008.

  • UN World Assembly on Ageing. Member of the Australian Delegation, Madrid 2002.

  • South Australian and Australian Social Role Valorisation Associations. Founding Management Committee Members, 1984- 2000.

  • Syracuse University, Training Institute for Human Service Planning, Leadership and Change Agentry. Visiting Scholar, 1983, 1997. 1992.